I suck at tech and have never had to do this. What the hell are you doing to Mint?

Akavir has dragons (including a tiger dragon, Tosh Raka), snow demons (Kamal), tiger-like cat folk (Ka Po' Tun), monkey people (Tang Mo), snake people (Tsaesci), and then there are unconfirmed rumors of rat people and dog people.

transitioning to GIMP from Photoshop has been harder for me than switching to Linux.

Same, but Affinity Photo instead of Photoshop.

I've often dabbled in Linux, mostly dual-booting, but now I'm fully committing. I mostly kept with Windows because Affinity Designer and Photo don't work on Linux, and having quality graphic design software is important to what I do. It just got to the point with Microsoft endlessly advertising to me, changing my defaults, trying to force me to use Edge, and forcing updates that I had enough and even having access to quality graphic design software wasn't enough for me to stay.

Glad to be part of the trend. Literally just yesterday, I got rid of Windows and installed Pop OS instead.